Cyrille Hemidy blog post describing how to host your static web site for free. Site is generated with Hugo generator, free SSL certificate and security provided by Cloudflare, and CI/CD provided via GitHub and Netlify. Cloudflare also manages DNS for custom domain and provides caching.
This set up works well with static web sites (Netlify does not host dynamic sites but provides CDN, builds your site from hugo code, enables staging environment, pre-rendering, assets post processing - for free). Post briefly goes over:
- Explaining what is Hugo sites generator
- Explaining what is Netlify
- Explaining what is CloudFlare
- Describing the setup and workflow
Nice charts and screen grabs help you to get clear picture how it is done.
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